Armature-winding for dynamo-electric machines.



APPLICATION FLED JAN. 3, 1906.

Nov. l5, 19N.

/ AUGRNEY UniTED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

NORMAN W'. ISTORER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR'TO WESTINGHOU'SL ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

ARMATURE-WINDING FOR DYNAMIC-ELECTRIC MACHINES.

Specification of 'Letters -Patent.

Patented Nov. 15. 1910.

Application filed JanuaryiS, 1906. Serial No. 294,429.

To all whom. 'it may concern: l Be it known that l, ouimx W. Sionnu, a citizenA oi' the United States, and a resident g of Pittsburg', in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in` Armature- VVindings for'Dynamo-Electrie l\lachines,l

of Which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dynamo-electric machines and particularly to machines in which resistance conductors are employed for the purpose of connecting the armature windings to the commutator segments.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel and useful means for increasing, in effect, the thermal capacity of resistance conductors Without affecting their resistance functions. y

In some dynamo-electric machines, and particularly in alternating current motors of i the cominuta'tor type, conductors of coni p aratively high resistance are frequently employed to connect the armature windings to the commutator segments for the purpose of reducing the amounts of current that traverse the local short-circuits Which are established in the armature Winding when 'adjacent coinniutator segments are engaged by the brushes, these conductors being usually located in the bottoms of the core slots, heneath the armature coils, or in separate slots in the armature structure.

The conductors generally consist of thin strips of German silver or other high resistance metal the thermal capacity of which is so small that they become heated to an objectionably high temperature by the currents flowing through them. While the thermal capacity of the resistance conductors cannot he actually increased without decreasing their resistance, the desired result can be secured, .Without varyingthe resistance, Ahy my invention, which consists in placing' strips of goed heat-conducting' material in 'the core slots, in close pronimity to, but insulated from, the resistance conductors.

ln alternatingn current railway motors which are subjected to ordinaiy service conditions., the aforesaid German silver strips are of suihcient size to carry the average electric currents which `How through them when the motors are in operation but are inone above the other,

capable of adequately absorbing or radiating the heat energy imparted to them by currents supplied to the motors when the armatures are at rest, as is the case, for eX- ample, when an electric locomotive or other vehicle is started under heavy load or other unfavorable conditions.

Figure l of the accompanying drawing is a. vieiv, in section, of a portion of an armature that is constructed in accordance with my invention. F 1g. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the arma-ture shown in Fig. 1, the armature coils being removed for the sake of clearness of illustration, and Fig. 3 is a transverse, sectional View on line III- III of Fig. l.

An armature core l having peripheral slots 2, the outer portions 3 of which are :vider than the inner portions 4, is provided 'with a Winding comprising a plurality of coils each of which is composed of a plurality of sections 5 and 6 that are located, in the upper portions 3 of the core slots and the ends of which are connected by means of clips 7 and 8. The clips 8 serve also to connect the ends of the armature coils to conductors 9 that are composed of German silver or other high resistance material whereby the armature Winding is connected to the commutatorsegments 10. The resistance conductors are formed in thin strips and are insulated from each other and assembled in separately insulated groups, two of which are located in the narrower portion l of each of the core slots, the Width of each group being' such as to permit of application thereof to the armature core, through the narrow openings at the periphery, into the core slots. Located between the resistance conductors of each group and in close proximity thereto but electrically insulated therefrom, are strips ll of good heat-conducting material, such as copper or other sheet metal, which cooperate with the resistance strips in providing the desired thermal capacity and thus serve to prevent the temperature of the resistance conductors from becoming eX- cessively high, Without interfering with their, resistance function.

Y l claim as my invention: y

1. The combination with a eommutator cylinder, an armature winding comprising a plurality ofgroups of coils, and resistance conductors the commutator cylinder segments, of strips for connecting the Winding to i of good heat-conducting material placed between adjacent resistance conductors and electrically insulated therefrom.

2. The combination with a commutator cylinder, a slotted armature core, a Winding theret'or comprising a pluralit)T of groups of coils located in the outer portions of the core slots` and resistance conductors for connectinggr the windingto the commutator cylinder segments said resistance conductors being` arranged in groups and located in the innermost portions ot the core slots7 of strips of good heat-conducting material placed bet-Ween the resistance conductors and electrically insulated therefrom.

3L' The combination with a conunutator cylinder, an armature Winding` and conductors Jfor connectingl the winding to the commutator cylinder segments, of strips of good heat-conducting material placed adjacent to said conductors and insulated thereA from.

4. The combination with 'a coniniutator cylinder, an armature winding and4 conductors for connecting the winding` to the comrnutator cylinder segments, o strips of sheet metal located adjacent to, but insulated from, said conductors.

5. The combination with a con'nuutator cylinder. a slotted armature core, a Winding therefor comprising ay plurality of coils loan armature core provided with slots, coils and high-resistance leads in said slots, and heat-conducting` elements adjacent to said leads and in non-inductive relation thereto.

8. A dyna1no-clectric machine having a coinmutator and an high-resistance leads and with heat-conducting` elements adj accnt to, but insulated from, said leads and in non-inductive relation thereto.

In testimon)7 whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 30th day of December, 1905.

NORMAN lV. STORER.

lVitnesses:

A. L. RiLsToN, Bumm' Hines.

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